Twentieth Century Culture

Author : Qi Xin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811399732

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A Brief History of Human Culture in the 20th Century by Qi Xin Pdf

This book examines the cultural concepts that guided the development of the “age of mankind”— the changes that took place in historical, philosophical, scientific, religious, literary, and artistic thought in the 20th century. It discusses a broad range of major topics, including the spread of commercial capitalism; socialist revolutions; the two world wars; anti-colonialist national liberation movements; scientific progress; the clashes and fusion of Eastern and Western cultures; globalization; women’s rights movements; mass media and entertainment; the age of information and the digital society. The combination of cultural phenomena and theoretical descriptions ensures a unity of culture, history and logic. Lastly, the book explores the enormous changes in lifestyles and the virtualized future, revealing cultural characteristics and discussing 21st -century trends in the context of information technology, globalization and the digital era.

Author : Alan Bullock,Robert Bertram Woodings,John Cumming
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:B4404978

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Twentieth-century Culture by Alan Bullock,Robert Bertram Woodings,John Cumming Pdf

Author : Glen Peterson,Ruth Hayhoe,Yongling Lu
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0472111515

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Education, Culture, and Identity in Twentieth-century China by Glen Peterson,Ruth Hayhoe,Yongling Lu Pdf

A comprehensive collection on twentieth-century educational practices in China

Author : Daniel H. Borus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742515079

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Twentieth-Century Multiplicity by Daniel H. Borus Pdf

The book describes the ways in which American thinkers and artists in the first two decades of the twentieth century challenged notions that a single principle explained all relevant phenomena, opting instead for a pluralistic world in which many truths, goods, and beauties coexisted. It argues that the bracketing of the idea that all knowledge was integrated allowed for a new appreciation of the importance of context and contingency.

Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 1859841708

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The Cultural Front by Michael Denning Pdf

As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.

Author : Warren Susman
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307826145

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CULTURE AS HISTORY by Warren Susman Pdf

Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the revolutions in communications and technology to the rise of a new pantheon of popular heroes. Susman documents and analyzes the process through which the older, Puritan-republican, producer-capitalist culture has given way to the leisure-oriented, consumer society we now inhabit: the culture of abundance.

Author : Dave Tell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271060255

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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America by Dave Tell Pdf

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.

Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782385011

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Music and International History in the Twentieth Century by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Pdf

Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.

Author : Gordon E Smith,Lynda Jessup,Andrew Nurse
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772823769

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Around and about Marius Barbeau by Gordon E Smith,Lynda Jessup,Andrew Nurse Pdf

Marius Barbeau (1883-1969) played a vital role in shaping Canadian culture in the twentieth century. Rooted in the premise that his cultural work – in anthropology, fine arts, music, film, folklore studies, fiction, historiography – cannot be read uni-dimensionally, the sixteen articles that comprise this book demonstrate that by merging disciplinary perspectives about Barbeau, evaluations and understandings of the situation around Barbeau can be deepened.

Author : Lucy Rollin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X004417781

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Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades by Lucy Rollin Pdf

Sixty-two illustrations make the personalities interests and media of each decade come alive for students of history, literature and popular culture."--Jacket.

Author : Douglas Tallack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317870586

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Twentieth-Century America by Douglas Tallack Pdf

The multi-volume Longman literature in English series aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. This book looks at cinema, painting and architecture in 20th-century America, as well as the culture of politics.

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595589927

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Fractured Times by Eric Hobsbawm Pdf

Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural fragmentation. Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts, rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the golden age of the "free intellectual" and explores the lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of women, and the myth of the American cowboy. Written with consummate imagination and skill, Fractured Times is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers.

Author : Philip Hayward
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0861962664

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Culture, Technology & Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century by Philip Hayward Pdf

Addressing how technology and creativity interrelate in the arts and culture of the late 20th century, this anthology combines a general introduction with a set of case studies from a range of international critics.

Author : Colleen M. Beck,William Gray Johnson,John Schofield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134568307

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Matériel Culture by Colleen M. Beck,William Gray Johnson,John Schofield Pdf

Matériel culture encompasses the material remains of conflict, from buildings and monuments to artefacts and militia, as well as human remains. This collection of essays, from an international range of contributors, illustrates the diversity in this material record, highlights the difficulties and challenges in preserving, presenting and interpreting it, and above all demonstrates the significant role matériel culture can play in contemporary society. Among the many studies are: * the 'culture of shells' * the archaeology of nuclear testing grounds * Cambodia's 'killing fields' * the Berlin Wall * and the biography of a medal *the reappearance of Argentina's 'disappeared' *World War II concentration camps.

Author : Rona Cran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317164296

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Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture by Rona Cran Pdf

Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. For all four, collage was an important creative catalyst, employed cathartically, aggressively, and experimentally. Collage's catalytic effect, Cran argues, enabled each to overcome a potentially destabilizing crisis in representation. Cornell, convinced that he was an artist and yet hampered by his inability to draw or paint, used collage to gain access to the art world and to show what he was capable of given the right medium. Burroughs' formal problems with linear composition were turned to his advantage by collage, which enabled him to move beyond narrative and chronological requirement. O'Hara used collage to navigate an effective path between plastic art and literature, and to choose the facets of each which best suited his compositional style. Bob Dylan's self-conscious application of collage techniques elevated his brand of rock-and-roll to a level of heightened aestheticism. Throughout her book, Cran shows that to delineate collage stringently as one thing or another is to severely limit our understanding of the work of the artists and writers who came to use it in non-traditional ways.